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  • Actors: Ben Stiller, Allan Houston, Claudia Schiffer, Scott Caan, Robert Downey Jr.
  • Directors: James Toback
  • Writers: James Toback
  • Producers: Alinur Velidedeoglu, Beata Rosenbaum, Daniel Bigel, Edward R. Pressman, Hooman Majd
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, German
  • Subtitles: English, German, French, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, Czech, Greek
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Mar 2001
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000053W5B
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,033 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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James Toback's Black and White, a portrait of white and black culture mixing it up on the streets of Manhattan, is like two films colliding. In the centre of the swirl are a group of upper-class white teens (led by Elijah Wood and pop singer Bijou Phillips) who appropriate hip-hop culture to rebel against their affluent lifestyle, and a posse of gangstas and drug dealers (led by rap producer Oli "Power" Grant) who are themselves trying to get off the streets and into the business culture through their music. Ageing indie filmmaker Toback has long shown an interest in character contradictions and quirks. Here the dynamic works: the two groups are genuinely curious about one another and mix with a cautious but untroubled ease. Less successful is the contrived drama that orbits this cultural mix but never quite meshes--such as Ben Stiller as a self-loathing New York cop who blackmails college basketball star Allan Houston into betraying his boyhood buddy turned street criminal.

Toback spices his Altmanesque style of restless camera work and impressionistic intercutting with attitude, nervous energy, and in-your-face sex. There's an interesting story to be told here, but the provocative cultural mix gets lost in the self-conscious melodrama and only periodically roars to life, notably in the edgy, unpredictable scenes with Mike Tyson (an inspired bit of casting that works marvellously). Also featured are rapper Raekwon, supermodel Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, and Robert Downey Jr. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

Video Description
DVD Special Features:

"Keeping it Reel" Video Diary Shot by Director James Toback
Deleted Scene : "Casey and Charlie"
Alternate Take : "Terry and Mike"
2 Music Videos
Feature Length Commentary by Director
Trailer
Filmographies
Isolated Score
Menus with Score
1:2.35 widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs
Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Arabic, French

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Worth seeing for Downey Jr., 22 Mar 2004
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I saw this on tv last night and while I didn't find it especially engaging it does have some interesting stuff to say, but mainly its worth seeing for Robert Downey Jr's performance. He's real funny, and the scene where he's coming on to Mike Tyson is brilliant. I mean personally if I was a fella I just wouldn't say to Tyson 'I had a dream and you were holding me', would you? Tyson is pretty good too and came across as having a much softer character than I'd thought. The character of Greta was well played by Claudia Schiffer too, though I have to admit for most of the film I was thinking 'she looks just like Claudia Schiffer' until it dawned on me it was her. Dopey or what? Ben Stiller plays a good creep, and somewhere in there, according to the credits, is Jared Leto but I don't recall seeing him. Maybe he was the kids teacher, I don't know. But if you don't recognise an actor they must be doing something right.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting study of racial identity., 13 April 2002
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black And White [VHS] [1999] (VHS Tape)
This is a film that I think was unfairly looked over- probably because it deals with issues that America likes to look away from. The film moves between a 'fiction' of New York encounters between 'black' & 'white' people & towards a Brechtian depiction of racial relationships. This is seen with people playing themselves: Mike Tyson,Method Man, Ghostface Killah etc. We look at the white tourists of the hip-hop/gangsta-rap world: Elijah Wood,Bijou Phillips, Brooke Shields etc- there is the whole talking 'black' patois. By accquiring the same rap-vernacular they feel they are 'on the level'. The most interesting point here is how white-Americans want to be 'black'- which has been evident since Norman Mailer's 'white Negro' concept or Lou Reed's 'I Wanna be Black'. See also John Turtorro in 'Do the Right Thing' or Quentin Tarantino in 'Pulp Fiction' (using blaxploitation language). The latest development is the awesome 'Bully' (which also stars the wonderful Bijou Phillips- one of the best actors in film today) where all the characters are white & middle class- yet soundtrack their lives to Cypress Hill & Dre. As with 'Black & White' they profess to be 'real'-when we know they're not- but the posturing gangsta speak leads to peer-machismo & then murder. A similar thing happens with the DA's son in 'Black & White'...The camerawork is brilliant- particularly when we cut to Shield's digital-camera or the conclusion where Raekown raps to the camera as we shift between a multitude of split screens...The characters are so interesting that I wonder if they could have continued this into a spin-off TV-series? Robert Downey Jr. is great as ever- while Jared Leto proves that he is going to be a De Niro (or at least a James Woods) for the 21st Century. Look at the edgy roles he's done: Fight Club,American Psycho,Requiem for a Dream, The Thin Red Line, Panic Room...Another interesting facet is the notion of homosexuality- through the Downey Jr. character mostly & inter-racial relationships- that are closer to Fassbinder's 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' than Lee's 'Jungle Fever'. Anyone who has read Susan Faludi's 'Stiffed' will find lots here that relate to her themes of masculinity in crisis...There is so much in 'Black & White'- from the notion of redemption in an injust justice system, to the notion that "we're all slaves now"- relating to the final summation by Raekown & co. that colour/race is no longer an issue. It's those in power: "cash moves everything around me/get the cream dollar dollar bill" & the startling depiction of New York cityscape.

James Toback has delivered an audacious & fiercely intelligent dissection of the racial divide in America today. Hopefully it'll find an apprecitive audience in years to come- which is doubtful in a world raised on the lightweight notions of Hollywood.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great film, 16 Jul 2002
great film with one of the better commentries which gives particularly interesting insight into the scenes with Mike Tyson and Method Man.

It doesnt get five stars because it can be quite cliched occasionally and isnt a patch on other films of the same genre but then any film which sees Robert Downey Junior getting an unexpected slap and sqealing like a girl as a result gets my vote.

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